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What are the traditional folk arts in China?

1, painting. These include prints, New Year pictures, architectural color paintings, murals, lantern paintings, fan paintings and so on.

2. sculpture. There are colored sculptures (spectacle colored sculptures, small clay figurines), architectural stone carvings, metal casting carvings, wood carvings, brick carvings, dough sculptures, glass architectural ornaments and so on.

3. toys. Including mud toys, ceramic toys, cloth toys, bamboo toys, iron toys, paper toys, wax toys, movable toys and so on.

4. Embroidery and dyeing. Including batik, calico, homespun, brocade, embroidery, flower picking, flower mending, etc.

5. clothing. Including national costumes, children's wear, wedding dresses, embroidered wallets, insoles, jewelry, velvet silk flower and so on.

6. Furniture and utensils. Including daily pottery, daily porcelain, wood, bamboo, lacquer, bronze and leather products, horses and chariots, etc. It has decorative and artistic value.

7. Toy group. Including puppets, shadow puppets, masks, flower show shapes, etc.

8. Paper-cutting. Including window grilles, fireworks, embroidery, embroidery patterns, tags, etc.

9, paper tied lamp paper. Including all kinds of lanterns and all kinds of paper.

10, weaving. Including straw weaving, bamboo weaving, wickerwork weaving, straw weaving, wheat straw weaving, brown weaving, paper weaving and so on. Food. Pastry mold, pastry modeling, candy modeling, etc.

The Source of China Folk Art

Folk art is closely related to folk activities, such as New Year pictures, paper-cutting, Spring Festival couplets, drama sets, lanterns, paper binding, symbols, costumes, dragon boat floats, moon cake patterns, clay sculptures and so on. Clothing and arrangements for folk festivals, as well as ethnic minority folk festivals.

Folk art is distributed all over the country, and has formed rich categories and styles due to differences in region, customs, feelings and temperament. But they all have the characteristics of unity of practical value and aesthetic value. In addition, their production materials are mostly ordinary wood, cloth, paper, bamboo and mud, but their production skills are superb and ingenious, and they are good at bold imagination and exaggeration.

The common homophonic techniques, positive, optimistic, fresh, vigorous, simple and lively, express the vision and ideal of a better life, which is full of romanticism and makes people feel more festive.